Rognvald "the Wise" (Jarl Of More) Rognvaldsson (born Ivarsson (Øysteinsson Mørejarl)﻿, Earl of More, Norway B: 830 Upland, Denmark Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway D: 910 Orkney Islands, Scotland﻿ M: 853 The Countess of More Ragnhild Hrolfsson﻿, 848-892 (Ragnhild/﻿Hilde Øysteinsson Mørejarl born Rolvsdatter), d/o Hrolf Nefia.﻿﻿﻿ Rognvald "The Wise" Eysteinsson (son of Eystein Ivarsson) is the founder of the Earldom of Orkney in the Norse Sagas.﻿ In the Heimskringla, Rognvald is Earl of Møre. He accompanies Harald Fairhair on his great expeditions to the west, to Ireland and to Scotland. Here, Rognvald's son Ivarr is killed. In compensation King Harald grants Rognvald Orkney and Shetland. Rognvald himself returns to Norway, giving the northern isles to his brother Sigurd Eysteinsson. ﻿Earl Rognvald is killed by Harald's son Halfdan Hålegg. Rognvald's death is avenged by his son, Earl Turf-Einar, from whom later Orkney earls claimed descent, who kills Halfdan on North Ronaldsay. ﻿

The area has brochs, ancient burial grounds and dovecots (you can see it at the right of the mill) according to the OS Explorer Map 450. In fact the area is covered with ancient settlements and castles.﻿

﻿Guillaume de Briouze, or ﻿William de Braose, 1st Lord of Bramber﻿ ("Guillaume", "Braiose", "de Brieuze", "de Briouse", "de Briouze", "Lord", "Guillaume de Briouze"﻿) B: 1049 Brieuze, Orne, Normandy, France﻿ D: 12/11/1095 Sussex,, Bramber, West Sussex, England﻿. William de Briouze﻿ was previously Lord of Briouze, Normandy. M1: Eve de Boissey, dame de Boissey-le-Châtel﻿, widow of Anchetil de Harcourt (Bibliothèque de Paris)﻿﻿. He was granted lands in England by William the Conqueror soon after he and his followers had invaded and controlled Saxon England, and held considerable estates in the counties of Berks, Wilts, Surrey, and Dorset, and became one of the most powerful of the Marcher Lords.﻿M: 1072 Agnes de Saint-Clair﻿ B: 1054 St Clair-sur-Elle, Manche, Normandy, France D: 1100 Devonshire, Bramber, West Sussex, England, d/o Waldonius, count of Saint-Clair and Helena "le Bon"﻿.﻿ William De Braose, 1st feudal baron, constructed the castle in about 1070, along with the Norman church, on a natural mound, to guard the strategically important harbour at Steyning and so began a vigorous boundary dispute and power tussle with the monks from Fécamp Abbey, in Normandy.﻿ Most of the surviving masonry dates from this time. Except for a period of confiscation during the reign of King John (1199–1216), Bramber Castle remained in the ownership of the de Braose family until the male line died out in 1326. William de Braose was succeeded as Lord of Bramber by his son, Philip de Braose, and started an important Anglo-Norman dynasty (see House of Braose).﻿ Little is known of Bramber Castle's history.

Bramber Castle today﻿

Philip de Braose, 2nd Lord of Bramber﻿ B: 1073 Bramber, Horsham, Sussex, England D: 1134 Holy Land, Palestine M: Eleanor de Barnstaple, Aenor Eva de Totenais﻿ B: 1084 Barnstaple, North Devon, Devonshire, England D: 1153﻿, d/o Judeal Juhel de Totenais, Lord Barnstable and Bertha de Totnes﻿. Philip as heir consolidated his paternal lands, and expanded them. In 1096 he confirmed his father's gifts to the Abbey of St. Florent. Philip de Braose conquered the Welsh borderlands at Builth and New Radnorand established new Norman lordships over them. At Builth, he constructed a Motte and Bailey fortification at the site where King Edward I later built Builth Castle in the 13th century. He seems to have gone on the First Crusade in 1103. He built the Norman church of St Nicolas at Old Shoreham and founded the port of New Shoreham. ﻿He supported King Henry I (1100–1135) against the claim to the English throne made by his elder brother Robert Curthose, Duke of Normandy, but then in 1110 he revolted against Henry, who then confiscated his estates. He regained his lordships and lands in 1112 and was thereafter able to retain them, but in 1130 settled them intact onto his eldest son William de Braose, 3rd Lord of Bramber.﻿ Children: William, Philip de Braose Jr (was an Anglo-Norman noble most noted for his participation in Henry II's conquest of Ireland﻿), daughters Basilia & Gillian. Between 1125 and 1130 Philip confirmed the gifts of his nephew, Philip de Harcourt, to the newly established Knights Templar. Philip traveled, it is suggested, to Jerusalem at the time when the Templars were first conceived in 1120. He confirmed the gifts of his nephew, Philip de Harcourt, to the newly established Knights Templar, which included the manor and church of Shipley between 1125 and 1130 in West Sussex﻿. In the Second Crusade, 1135, he died in Palestine.﻿﻿

William III de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber ("de Briouze", "Briouse", "The Ogre of Abergavenny", "Lord of Briouze", "7th Baron Abergavenny", "7th Baron of Abergavenny", "William de Briouze"﻿) ﻿ B: 1150 apx Bramber Castle, Sussex, England D: 08/09/1211﻿ Corbeil, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. M: 1166 Maud Matilda de Saint-Valéry, Lady of la Haie﻿ B: 1150 Saint-Valery-en-Caux, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France D: 08/09/1211﻿Corfe Castle, Corfe, Dorset, England, United Kingdom (Starvation in castle tower for Defying King John)., d/o Bernard III, seigneur de Saint-Valéry and Matilda de Saint-Valery, their family manor Hinton Waldrist in Berkshire﻿﻿. Owned Hay Castle-on-Wye. ﻿They had 16 children together, who married into some of the most powerful families of the time. Their eldest son, William, married Maud de Clare, daughter of the Earl of Hertford. Another son, Giles, became Bishop of Hereford.﻿ Of their daughters Loretta, married Robert de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Leicester and another, Margaret, married Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath.﻿ A third son, Reginald, married, as his 2nd wife, Gwladus Ddu, daughter of Llewelyn the Great, Prince of Wales. Reginald’s son, William, by his 1st wife married Eva Marshal, daughter of the great knight, William Marshal. It was this William de Braose who was ignominiously hanged by Llewelyn the Great, after being found in the bedchamber of Llewelyn’s wife Joan, the Lady of Wales and natural daughter of King John. William had been at the Welsh court to arrange the marriage of his daughter, Isabel, to Llewelyn and Joan’s son, David. Interestingly, the marriage still went ahead, although it was to be childless.﻿

Sir John "Tadody" de Braose, Lord of Bramber and Gower﻿ "Lord Bramber gower", "Lord of Stinton", "de Braose", "de Briouse"﻿ B: 1197 Gower, Glamorganshire, Wales﻿D: 07/18/1232 Bramber, Sussex, England﻿. He was in royal custody until he came of age in January 1218, indicating a birth year about 1197. He had been privately nursed by a Welsh woman, at Gower. This John de Braos had grants of lands from King Henry III. and held also the Barony of Brembye, in Sussex, where he died in 1231, by a fall from his horse, his foot remaining in the stirrup. Nicknamed "Tadody" by the Welsh when he was hidden in Gower as a child after King John had his father and grandmother killed. He was later in the custody of Engelard de Cigogny (castellan of Windsor) along with his brother Giles. Cigogny was ordered to give the two boys up to William de Harcourt in 1214. At this time John became separated from his brother.﻿ ﻿M: Margred verch Llewelyn B: 1202 Meisgyn, Penychen, Glamorganshire, Wales D:1264﻿ Clifford Castle, Herefordshire, England, buried ﻿Priory Church/Aconbury, Herefordshire, England.﻿ John disputed his uncle Reginald's claim to the Braose lands, sometimes resorting to arms. Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, helped him to secure Gower (1219). In 1221, with the advice and permission of Llewelyn, he repaired his castle of Abertawy (Swansea). He purchased the Rape of Bramber from Reginald and his son William in 1226. In that year John confirmed the family gifts to Sele Priory, near Bramber, and to the Abbey of St FLorent, Saumur, and added others. After the death of Reginald (1228) he became Lord of Skenfrith, Grosmont, and Whitecastle, the three Marcher castles, by charter from the king but he lost these in 1230 to Hugh de Burgh at the same time as Gower became a subtenancy of de Burgh's Honour of Carmarthen and Cardigan.﻿

﻿Thomas Brewer 1540 Chard, Somerset England D:﻿ 1637 M1: 1562 Anne Drake 1543 Westcheapels, London, England D: 1565, two sons, Thomas Brewer Jr. in 1563-1579 and John Drake Brewer in 1565-1635.﻿ There are reasons to believe that Thomas Jr. and John Drake Brewer joined Sr. Francis Drake in 1577 on his ftrip around the world. John and Thomas Brewer are named several times in documentation. Thomas Brewer was killed by natives in area where Chili is today. M2: 1592 Mary Drake B: 1574 London, Somerset, England D: 1634﻿ Warwich County, VA.﻿ Thomas & Mary and thier children, Thomas 1592- & Jonathon 1601-1675, arrived in Vigirinia around 1622 with his son John Drake Brewer. It wasn't John's first trip to Virginia. He was returning from a trip back to England.﻿

Built in 1583 as a private residence for William Symes of Poundisford Fore Street, in Chard

According to his father's wish, John Symes, his youngest son, conveyed the property to 12 trustees so that it should be converted into a grammar school in 1671.

John Drake Brewer B: 1565 D: 1635 M: 1594 Margerty Grove 1565 London D: 1635 Isle of Wright Co, Va﻿, d/o Ralph Grove. He was a merchant and grocer in Bartholomew Lane, London, and a citizen of eminence and respectability in the City of London. John and Mary could have emigrated to Virginia with their 3 children before 1622 as there was a Petition in that year of Captain Francis West, Captain William Claybourne, John Brewer, Robert Sweet and William Capps, gents, ancient planters and adventurer in New England, for the remission of heavy duties on tobacco. ﻿A member of the House of Burgesses from Warwick County in 1629-1630, and as "John Brewer, gent.," was appointed one of the commissioners (justices) for holding monthly courts in that county in 1631-1632. He was a member of the Council of State from 1632 until his death in 1635. John and Mary Brewer owned a plantation called "Stawley (or Stanley) Hundred, otherwise Bruer's Borough," in Warwick county, and not long before his death had obtained rights of 1,000 acres, which his wife and her second husband located on and obtained a grant for at what is still called "Brewer's Neck," between Brewer's and Chuckatuck Creeks, in Isle of Wight county. ﻿Children: John II 1600 England, Mary Brewer 1604 England, Margaret Brewer (1606 - ) Born in Virginia, Roger Brewer (1608 - 1631) Born in Virginia, Thomas Brewer (1615 - 1698 Born in England, Anne Brewer (1616 - ) Born in England, & William Brewer (1621 -1621)﻿.In 1636, his wife remarried to Rev. Thomas Butler, "Pastor of Denby."

﻿John Brewer made his will Sept. 4th 1631 as a 'citizen and grocer of London' which was filed in London 06 May 1635. for there was no recognized probate court in Virginia. It was probated 13th May 1636 as follows﻿:

To my dearly beloved father Thomas Brewer, eight pounds yearly, as long as h shoul live

To my son John Brewer my plantation in Virginia called 'Stanley hundred' also 'Brewer's Burough' only the third part of the profits thereof during the life of Mary my wife I give to her and also the third part of my goods and chattels, beside which is also due by the custom of London﻿

To my son Roger Brewer and my daughter Margaret Brewer forth pounds apiece payable at marriage or when 21﻿

To my brother Thomas Brewer 40 sh and to each of his children 10 sh﻿

The residue to my said children John, Roger and Margaret, they to be executors, but as they are now young, I appoint my wife Mary and my loving uncle Roger Drake, citizen and clothmaker of London, to be overseers and guardians of my children; to each of them 40 sh to buy them a ring﻿.﻿

John Brewer II B: 1600 London D: 1669 Isle of Wright Co, Va﻿. Member of House of Burgesses 1657-1658 ﻿M: Anne Reade 1605 London, Middlesex, England D: 1697﻿ Isle of Wight County, Va﻿, d/o John Reade and Barbara Reade.﻿He settled on the 1000-acre grant of his step-father, Rev. Thomas Butler. He also held his father's plantation "Stanley Hundred" in Warwick. He served in the House of Burgesses from 1637 to 1658 (like his father). Their children: Mary Brewer 1633-, John Brewer III 1635-1705, Ann Brewer 1637-, Thomas 1639-1698 and Paul.﻿

03~Mary Ann Brewer ﻿B: 05/01/1859 Iowa D: 05/01/1896 OK M: 10/25/1876 Andrew Thomas ﻿Anthony 1856-, in in Muscatine, Iowa, on the Mississippi River in the east edge of the state. Ceremony is﻿ performed by A. B. Robbins, Pastor of the Congl. Church.﻿ ﻿Andrew Anthony and Mary Ann Brewer meet﻿, because Mary Ann's sister Rebecca Brewer married Andrew's father John in 1862, ﻿when Mary was 3 and Andrew was 6. In 1893, Andrew, rode by horseback from Caldwell, Kansas, in the Cherokee Strip race into Oklahoma (Indian Territory) and got a farm. Andrew claimed land in Oklahoma between Lamont and Deer Creek, Oklahoma, near the Kansas border.

3~﻿Robert Eugene Brewer Jr. B: 09/12/1922 Altoona, Sedgwick County, Kansas﻿ D: 03/14/1983 Santa Clara, CA. At the time of enlistment, 03/17/1944. Robert E Brewer Jr was listed as single, without dependents, and had an education level of 1 year of high school.﻿﻿ M: 1949 Elaine Edith Dunham. B: 05/02/1927 D: 03/12/1983, daughter of Fredd H. Dunham, 1888-1972, and Edith E. Kiser born in 1886. Army service number 37737145. ﻿Enlisting at the age of 21 on March 17, 1944, Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. ﻿Robert E Brewer Jr was a Private in the Selectees during World War II,. Skilled Mechanics and Repairmen, N.E.C Duration of War, Plus 6 Months,﻿﻿ Group Regiment Commands System, Parachute Infantry Regiment (have not been able to confirm his Regiment/squad number), European Theatre France.﻿

3~Benjamin Bruce Brewer B: 1849 Iowa D: 1908 Arkansas City, KS﻿ M: Amanda Ellen Duncan 1850-1915 KS. Mr. Brewer was well known in the city and was an old time resident of Cowley county. Before moving to the city several months ago he resided on a farm northeast of town.﻿﻿.﻿﻿

8~Patti Brewer 1759-1820 M: 1779 George Henry Blalock/Blaylock 1755-1828. They moved to Ohio in 1803 and George lost all of his property, including his discharge certificate, during the 1st Siege of Fort Meigs (at present-day Perrysburg, Ohio) in the spring of 1813, following the surrender of General William Hull (War of 1812). He then moved to Logan County, Ohio and later applied for a pension 18 Apr 1829 from there. He died after 1830 in Bath, Allen County, Ohio. (Pension Application #R20206

A Confederate Army in Company K of Fagan's Brigade under General Hindman. Nick fought at Cane Hill. He was a member of the 37th Arkansas Infantry, CSA. He was in the Battle of Prairie Grove and the Battle of Helena, where he was captured on July 3, 1863. He was imprisoned in Illinois until the end of the war. Also with him in prison was his brother-in-law James Ferguson who died in 1864. After the war Nicholas returned home and found that his wife, Saroba Furlow had died. He then married his sister-in-law, the widow of James Ferguson, Rosanna Artimissa Furlow Ferguson who died July 1, 1889. His third marriage, in 1896, was to Delilah Alabama Wilson Waddell. He died at his home, in Goodrum Township, Lonoke County, where he had lived for over 60 years.﻿, Prairie Grove, was captured at Helena in 1863, and remained a prisoner of the Union Army for the duration of the war.﻿

2~John Adam Brewer 1833-1887 M: 04/02/1857 Martha E Bradford d/o James S Bradford and Mary Ann Cook. A Confederate who enlisted in 1861. He was wounded in the right hand and never recovered fully from his injury. He was a Master Mason, and a farmer by trade.﻿

1~James W Brewer

2~Davis H Brewer 1860-1887

3~Francis N Brewer 1868-

4~John F. Brewer 1874-

3~David Daniel Brewer ﻿1836-1911 M: 1864 Rosie Ann Lowery. He enlisted in the Confederate Army with Company C of the 42nd Infantry.﻿ M2: 1879 Mary Ann George, 1845-1910, widow of John James Whitehead﻿ 1839-1878.

2~Thomas Jefferson Brewer Jr 1790-1840 M: 1814 Mary Ralls. Thomas Brewer enlisted in the U S Army at the age of 17 for the war of 1812. For his service he recieved a federal land grant of 80 acres in Ray County. Missouri, 12/05/1833.﻿

2~John Vick III 1755-1835 M: 1775 Tabitha~. He inherited the Meherrin Parish plantation as well as a slave, a cross-cut saw, and his father's still.﻿

3~Henrietta Vick 1740-1794 M: Woods

4~Sarah Vick 1745-1795

5~Edith Vick 1760- M: 1790 William Richardson

6~Mary Vick 1762- M: 1791 Richard Mason

7~Ann Vick 1752 M: Clark

8~Catherine Vick 1750-1824 M: 1779 Nathaniel Woodruff

7~Howell Brewer Sr 1715-1772 M: 1741 Rebecca Willis B: 1727 D: 1755. In 1744, he and his step-mother settled his father's estate in Brunswick County including land and slaves. In 1749, he recieved a 200 acre land grant Bladen Co, North Carolina. Area settled for the affordable, fertile land.﻿ M2: 1756 Marian May. In 1757, he was deeded 100 acres by John May, Marian's father﻿.

1~Lt John Brewer Sr 1738-1824 M: 1758 Amey Meredith 1734- Enlisted under Captain William Gholeson in Chatham County, North Carolina.

1~Isaac Brewer B: 1763 Creek and Cherokee Nation, in what later became Wilkes County, Georgia ﻿D: 1852 Silver Run, Talladega County, AL. In 1781 was shot in the back at the Battle of Cane Creek, but survived.

2~Nimrod Brewer ﻿1767-

3~Reuben Brewer ﻿1768-1855

4~Simon Brewer ﻿1775-1853

5~George Brewer ﻿1777-1846

6~John Brewer ﻿1779-

3~William Brewer B: 1752-1837 M: 1780 Sarah Asbury. Enlisted March of 1780 under Captain William Gholeson in Chatham County, North Carolina for three months. ﻿in the cause of freedom. His three tours of duty which amounted to about nine months in total.﻿ were many others of his family including several of his brothers – John, Howell Jr, Ambrose and Henry Brewer – as well as his nephew Isaac Brewer.﻿ It was from Blount County, on the 10th of August 1832, that William applied for pension due him for his service in the war. He was then about 80 years old. He was granted a pension amounting to $30/yr for nine months of soldiering and continued to receive it until his death in 1837,﻿

1~George Washington Brewer B: 09/11/1847 KY D: 09/14/1941 M: Newarky Kay Hensley.﻿ KY George Washington Brewer's ancestral roots were deeply set in the colonial ground of southern Virginia. His great, great grandfather settled his father's estate there, including the land and slaves, in 1744 and received a land grant in North Carolina a few years later. The family was all there by around 1755. Quite a large clan of Brewers ended up in what was eventually Chatham County as well as the surrounding areas. During and after the Revolutionary War, folks were on the move. veteran of the Civil War, a preacher, and also operated a steam mill on the Brewer's Branch of Goose Creek in Clay County. ﻿His portion of the family migrated into Tennessee and Kentucky, where George was born.﻿ George Washington Brewer﻿.

16~Lewis S Brewer 1832-1879 (at the hands of W.J. Clemons)﻿ M: 1851 Martha Elizabeth Hensley﻿, sister of Green Hensley﻿. M2: Missouri Hodges Birkes (war widow with three children). Around 1855 they moved to Arkansas where their second son Millard Filmore Brewer was born in 1858. The following year, 1859, Lewis Brewer Jr. They initially lived in Richland and later moved to Calf Creek Arkansas.﻿ Lewis Joined the Confederate Army and became part of the home guard.﻿

1~Solon Lecurtis Brewer 1874-1957 M: 1898 Laura Palestine Chote 1880-1970﻿. They moved to Oklahoma in the early 1900s, as﻿ he was able to obtain 240 acres of land near Cedardale Oklahoma by trading a couple of horses and a wagon. He lived there until about 1950 when he lost his sight. He and Laura move to Mooreland Oklahoma. He died in Mooreland Oklahoma in February of 1957.﻿

12~Burwell/Burrell Bledsoe ﻿Brewer Sr 1730-1799 M: 1750 Elizabeth Patrick 1732-1800 d/o Paul Patrick & Agnes Milliken.﻿ Burrell's land was on Naked Creek, William's on Big Sandy Creek and George's on the south side of the Yadkin River. In 1784 the Burrell Brewers, his Patrick in-laws, and George Brewer went to Georgia, settling on Long Creek, then in Wilkes Co., but now in Oglethorpe County. The family scattered to surrounding counties. These people were Whigs, of the useful kind, who were generally on the warpath throughout the revolutionary struggle. Their time was given to their country, their property neglected; and, like many others, after the peace was proclaimed they felt the necessity of commencing life anew, in 1784, they transferred themselves to middle Georgia. They settled on Long Creek, then in Wilkes County, now in Oglethorpe County, near the present town of Lexington. ﻿

1~Burwell/Burrell Bledsoe Brewer II.﻿ M: Elizabeth Gilly Brewer, d/o George B Brewer & Nancy Bird, great granddaughter of George G. Brewer of Virginia and his first wife Sarah Lanier.﻿ ﻿Soldier in the War of 1812. His life ended in a duel in Louisiana.﻿

St. Stephens was the eastern most city of the Mississippi Territory and a very important site during the settlement of the southwestern frontier. During a brief three decades beginning in the 1790’s, St. Stephens became a Spanish Fort, an American trading post, and Mississippi territorial capital as settlers streamed down the Federal Road from the Carolinas and Georgia. At its height, c. 1820, the town boasted between two and three thousand residents and 450 substantial buildings. Upon Mississippi gaining statehood in 1817, Alabama became its own territory and St. Stephens its capital. Alabama’s first Governor, William Wyatt Bibb, presided over the first meeting of the Territorial Legislature at the Douglass Hotel on St. Stephens’ High Street. From here was the beginning of Alabama. St. Stephens declined rapidly to a ghost town after the capital was moved away in 1819.﻿

1~Georgianna E Brewer 1853–1933

2~Julia Henriette Brewer Taylor 1864–1954﻿

2~Patrick Brewer

3~Adelia Brewer M

4~James Brewer

1~Burrell Brewer

5~Nancy Brewer M: 1800 George Brittain

6~Susan Brewer M1: Alex Bolling M2: Henry Bollings (Alex's brother)

7~Rebecca Brewer M: ~Lewis

8~Sarah Brewer M: ~Sojourner

9~Elizabeth Brewer M: John Paschal

10~Agness Brewer M: George Washington Paschal

11~John Brewer 1752-

12~William Brewer 1758-1818 M1: Elizabeth Holman M2: Sarah Doggett

13~Joseph Brewer 1732-﻿

14~Boyce Brewer 1733-1744

15~Done Brewer 1734-

Greenup, Cumberland, IL﻿

Hay Castle-on-Wye﻿﻿

The castle was built by Thomas Robert Hay, 11th Earl of Kinnoull, in 1827 to replace its draughty and uncomfortable predecessor which had fallen victim to a fire.﻿

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1823

Clifford Castle

A castle in the village of Clifford which lies four miles to the north of Hay-on-Wye in the Wye Valley in Herefordshire.

﻿Weoley Castle, Herefordshire﻿

Hopton Castle, Shropshire, England﻿

Afallach to Rhaglan, Raglan to Ragland ~ The Wales Family History

Maj. Gen. John Ragland of Wales: Rhaglan/Raglan) 1687-1750 and Anne Ragland﻿. From Wales to England to Virginia﻿.

An Englishman’s home is his castle, then William Herbert’s Raglan is the Welshman’s equivalent.

Raglan was begun in the 1430s, rather late in the day for castle building, but ﻿this is a large and truly impressive ruin of a castle. ﻿Built for show rather than with battle in mind, it still held off parliamentarian forces for thirteen weeks in one of the last sieges of the Civil War. The castle was eventually taken and was systematically destroyed by parliament.﻿

The ruins are extensive- once through the gatehouse you will find the moat, protecting the Great Tower which is also surrounded by a defensive wall. There are steps up to the Great Tower, they are quite wide & Passable by castle standards, but the tower is very high, and there are many small doorways leading to secret rooms and some dark and spooky cellars waiting to be explored. The pitched stone court has some amazing Tudor window frames, and the gallery still has the carving of two figures, situated high on the wall.﻿ ﻿

1~Maun ap Pasgen B: 440 D: Annan ferch Brydw B: 455 D: , d/o Brydw ap Gwrtheyrn, Brenin Maelienydd Elfael﻿ (Brydw was one of the sons of Vortigern, the great usurper of the British High-Kingdom. He is chiefly known for his appearance amongst the names inscribed on the 'Pillar of Eliseg': a 9th century memorial which still stands near Valle Crucis Abbey in Powys).﻿

Powis castle was built by a Welsh prince in the thirteenth century. Following the end of the Welsh Wars (1282) and for his loyalty to Edward I, the King permitted Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn to begin building Powis Castle circa 1283.﻿﻿

1~﻿Gwilym ap Jenkin, Master Sergeant of Abergavenny﻿ B: 1327 Of Wernddu, Monmouthshire, England﻿D: 1377 Perth Hir, Monmouthshire, England.﻿ M: Gwenllian verch Hywel Fychan﻿. One of the early ancestors, Gwilym ap Jenkin (1327-1377) was the only child of "Jenkin the Apple Tree", a clerk to the Lord of Abergavenny at Llanvapley. Gwilym married the daughter and heir of Vychan ap Howel, a descendant of the early Welsh kings of Monmouth and Glamorgan. Upon Vychan's death, Gwilym inherited his title and property as Lord of Cerf-Y-Ddwy-Gwlyd, his coat of arms and his family name, Herbert﻿.

﻿1~Sir John Ragland B: 1545 Llys-y-Fronydd, Glamorgan, Wales D: 1605 St. Decumans, Somerset, England M: Alice Kingson 1543 St. Decuman's Parish, Somerset, England D: 1640 St. Decuman's Parish, Somerset, England. Father of Thomas Ragland, Sr.; John 'the Elder' Ragland; William Ragland and Joan Raglan﻿.﻿﻿ William, Earl of Huntingdon left no male heirs. That is why his daughter Elizabeth passed Raglan Castle to the Somersets. However, Robert ap Jevan's line continued, and his great-grandson Sir John Ragland, Knight, (Ragland John,1570, son of Sir Thomas Ragland, Knight," mentioned in the Cardiff records,﻿ is again mentioned 1596 in the Cardiff records when his daughter Joan married Thomas, son of William Bawdrippe﻿﻿